Fevola not on Swans&#39; radar

Sydney have a forward line to rebuild and money to burn, but after signalling interest in Brendan Fevola once, they have no intention of doing so again.

"If Brendan Fevola was available for trade last year, would we have been interested, yeah, we would have been," coach Paul Roos said yesterday.

But asked whether the club would go after Fevola again, he said: "As I sit here now, no, because he's signed up for three years. We've got Jesse White, we've got Lewis Johnston . . . no, he certainly doesn't come into our thinking."

Although Roos and Sydney football manager Andrew Ireland never met Fevola when he was considering his options, the coach also categorically denied that the spearhead met the leadership group.

Now Sydney face 2010 without Michael O'Loughlin and Barry Hall, who wrote in a newspaper column yesterday that the Swans should chase "hard" for an established forward and that Fevola would fit "perfectly".

"Fev fits the criteria there's no doubt, and if I was in Sydney's footy department I'd be doing whatever I could to see if there's any chance of doing that deal," Hall wrote. "I know Fev's on contract but I also know deals can be done if the price is right.

"You need someone with a big name and someone who has the ability to attract people to the footy. It's a tough market."

However, Roos said it was more important that the club used all of its draft picks to recruit the best available youngsters this off-season rather than top up with established talent.

"I don't necessarily buy into the fact that we have to have a high-profile star," he said.

"In Melbourne, Buddy Franklin is, I suspect, a high profile star, but how much better is he than Gary Ablett Jr? Gary Ablett, in my opinion, is the best player in the competition.

"People forget that Tony Lockett was a star when he got here but Barry Hall wasn't. He developed as a star when he got here."